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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again... who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.”
― Teddy Roosevelt

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

“I may not be where I want to be but I'm thankful for not being where I used to be.”
― Habeeb Akande

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
― Tim Burton

“Fill your mind before you empty your mouth.”
― Habeeb Akande

“Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet.”
― Habeeb Akande

“The weak makes excuses, the strong makes changes.”
― Habeeb Akande

“Most times, the way isn’t clear, but you want to start anyway. It is in starting with the first step that other steps become clearer.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“The first step to becoming is to will it”
― Mother Teresa

“The future starts today, not tomorrow.”
― Pope John Paul II

“A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.”
― Sidney Poitier, The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

“I've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage--self destructive, destroy the world rage--and its flame burns because the world is so unjust. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.”
― Sidney Poitier, The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

“Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile here, a jarring sound there - that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?”
― Sidney Poitier, The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw

“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. ”
― George Bernard Shaw, Overruled

“Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.”
― George Bernard Shaw